Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-24


janitors
There are some queer advertisements in
English newspapers. An English gentleman
not long ago advertised for general servant,
"who must be good plain cook and an
| earnest deist." And in an English High
Church paper there recently appeared the ad
| vertisement of a coachman who declared
| himself to be an advanced Catholic and
| skillful in the management of horses"
| The people of Washington object to acting
as conductors for horse car companies, and
a movement is on foot to make the compa-
| nies provide conductors. It is the opinion
| of lawyers who have been consulted that the
roads cannot compel patrons to hustle
| through the cars to put their fares into the
boxes, and that if passengers are ready to
pay their fare upon demand the roads must
furnish collector to receive it.
Some people can't take a joke. A New
Brunswick (New Jersey paper gravely an
nounced one morning that certain postofice
clerks, naming them, had been detected in
| ''selling thirteen stamps for cent and a
| quarter" naming the detective who had
worked up the case. The paper has now been
sued for So, 600 damages by the two clerks,
and is the victim of its own joke, which
| turns On the fact that thirteen stamps cost
twenty-six cents, or cent and a quarter of
a dollar. The postofiee department sent on
an inspector to demand the reason why the
theft had not been reported.
| We call attention to the correspondence
between some of the prominent citizens of
New Haven and Marshal CARL, which is
printed on another page. The letter of the
citizens is a meritsd tribute to man who
| has exhibited heroic persistency against
| great odds. Mr.. Carll has worked very hard
| o give the people of this city good opera
| house and good entertainments in it. He
| has been uniformly and heartily co urteous to
| all his patrons with whom he has come in
| contact, and there are many who have reason
| to feel kindly toward him. It is pleasing to
| know that this feeling has already taken
shape. His "beneit" should be substan-
| tial one.
| The prohibition boom has reached Morocco.
Mu1ey -Hassan orders that the consumption
of all liquors and the use of tobacco in every
form be stopped, and men who have been
found offending have been most severely
punished. Ia every case where liquor or
tobacco have been discovered they have been
destroyed without compensation, although
no warning was given of the change in the
policy of the government. The result is q
great deal of ill-feeling on the part Of
Muley's subjects, who declare that the new
law is enforced only against the poor, and
that the rich have as much liquor and tobac-
60 as they ever did, which is probably true
Thus it is seen that prohibition does not pro-
hibit in Morocco any more than it does in
Maine.
Liquor dealers in many of the States have
reason to feel gloomy. Especially is this the
case in Pennsylvania. At present the liquor
license fee in Pennsylvania is uniform one
of $50, but under bill now pending in the
legislature, the enactment of which is reason
ably certain, the fee will range from $3.50 to
$500, according to population. The pending
bill also hedges about the sale Of liquors with
embarrassing restrictions and provides very
| severe penalties for violations of the law. It